First it was stealing from Tommy Bowden’s staff again, now it’s poaching from Nick Saban’s.
It is rumored that Major came home for the opportunity to take over for Mack down the road (when he is done taking all of DeLoss Dodd’s money). Will Muschamp is here for a year, max, and merely opening up his [...]
Fanblogs brings us StubHub’s list of 2007’s Top 25 College Football Rivalries, and, wouldn’t you know it, USC shows up twice in the top five.
1 USC at Notre Dame 20-Oct $409 [...]
Posted in Alabama, Arizona, Arizona State, Arkansas, Army, Auburn, Cal, Clemson, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Indiana, Iowa, Iowa State, LSU, Michigan, Michigan State, Navy, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Oregon, Oregon State, Pitt, Purdue, Stanford, Tennessee, Texas, Texas A&M, The Other USC, The U, UCLA, USC, Va Tech, Virginia, West Virginia | No Comments »As always, big thanks to Awful Announcing for this week’s announcer schedule for college football.
Highlights:
Thursday night: South Florida at Rutgers (ESPN: Fowler/Flutie/James). South Florida’s last test on the road.
Saturday (Noon Eastern): Nothing worth watching.
Saturday (3:30pm Eastern): Florida at Kentucky (CBS: Lundquist/Danielson, Gameday in Lexington) and SC at ND—2 years ago a clash of Top 10 [...]
Okay, here we go. As soon as you think that you might want to not watch much college football this weekend 7 of the Top 15 lose.
#1 USC left all of their crisp play in LA and squeaked by U-Dub by 3. SC looked terrible and I would not be surprised if LSU is [...]
Posted in Alabama, Auburn, Cal, Clemson, Florida, Kansas State, Kentucky, LSU, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, USC, Washington | 2 Comments »As SI considers the ‘Pac-10 vs. SEC’ question, Bill Trocchi seeks some outside help in constructing his latest conference power rankings:
For this particular exercise, I forwarded Ken White, the senior oddsmaker for Las Vegas Sports Consultants, 10 hypothetical matchups. Keep in mind that White’s company sets the odds for 90 percent of the casinos [...]
Posted in Alabama, Arizona, Arizona State, Auburn, Cal, Florida, Georgia, LSU, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Oregon, Oregon State, Pac-10, SEC, Stanford, Tennessee, The Other USC, UCLA, USC, Vanderbilt, Washington, Washington State | 5 Comments »Upset Alert Recap: South Florida pulled it off at Auburn; so did Washington. Oregon put Lloyd Carr on suicide watch. UCLA and Texas survived tough games at home.
Virginia Tech looked to be the 2nd most overrated team in the country; however, Pat Forde feels that LSU is #1.
The Ole Ball Coach pulled his magic against [...]
Four Top 25 teams (and a former Top 5 team) are being told to watch out this week:
Auburn hosting South Florida: Both of SI’s college football writers pick the upset.
Texas hosting TCU: TCU alum Dan Jenkins prays for the upset and Bob Davie picks the Horned Frogs.
UCLA hosting BYU: The battle for Ben Olsen’s soul…
Boise [...]
It appears that Terry Bowden might be angling to replace Daddy at FSU. He has taken a position as “Observer” at FSU and will attend a few practices a week. Apparently when his brother Jeff was forced out as Offensive Coordinator, and his former Auburn assistant Jimbo Fisher was hired to replace him, [...]
Posted in ACC, Auburn, Clemson, Florida State | No Comments »The Sporting News’s Tom Dienhart is already catching flak for his ranking of the nation’s best BCS coaches. He’s got Pete Carroll ranked first, followed by Jim SweaterVest-sel and Rich Rodriguez. Urban Meyer is ranked 12th, but just imagine if the Gators had gone undefeated this past season: he might have even cracked the top [...]
Posted in Auburn, Coaches, Florida, Iowa State, Ohio State, Stanford, Texas, USC, West Virginia | No Comments »From Stewart Mandel:
1) Florida getting shafted would be the best thing to happen to college football: Before you jump all over me Gators fans, I’m not saying it’s right, but a 12-1 Florida team that gets left out of the national championship game for USC or Michigan may be the BCS victim that finally causes [...]